Business plays a powerful role in contemporary society, but this increasing role has been
accompanied by a growing concern regarding the social and moral impact of enterprising
endeavour. One of the greatest challenges ...

The relevance of networks for entrepreneurship is now well established. However,
despite the extent of work carried out there are still clear gaps in our understanding
about how networks change and adapt over time and ...

DRAKOPOULOU-DODD, S. and ANDERSON, A.R., 2007. Mumpsimus and the mything of the individualistic entrepreneur. International Small Business Journal, 25 (4), pp. 341-360

The purpose of this paper is to explore the persistence, in the face of
considerable evidence to the contrary, of the notion that entrepreneurship is
a purely individualistic practice. It may be that taking account of ...

Networking plays an important and well-studied role in entrepreneurial start-up processes, but its role in subsequent venture growth is less well understood. This paper reports on an in-depth longitudinal study of ...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to report on a review of the writing practices and experiences of scholars who have published qualitative papers in the field of entrepreneurship. It evaluates existing knowledge about ...

This paper explores the role of religion in the formation and development of enterprise culture. The approach is that of legitimisation leading to an increase in environmental munifence. It is argued that entrepreneurial ...

ANDERSON, A.R., JACK, S.L. and DRAKOPOULOU-DODD, S., 2005. The role of family members in entrepreneurial networks: beyond the boundaries of the family firm. Family Business Review, 18 (2), pp. 135-154.

Research has traditionally concentrated on formal kin involvement in the
family business. This study investigates if, to what extent, and how entrepreneurs
capitalised on resources embedded in the family, but beyond the ...

DODD, S.D., ANDERSON, A. and JACK, S. 2015. The role of networking in the growth process of entrepreneurial family firms. In Randerson, K., Bettinelli, C., Dossena, G. and Fayolle, A. (eds.) Family entrepreneurship: rethinking the research agenda. Abingdon: Routledge, chapter 10, pages 212-238.

We investigate the role of networks in the growth processes of the entrepreneurial family firm. The study adds to two main stream of literature, drawing together theoretical developments from the family firm realm and ...

JACK, S., DRAKOPOULOU-DODD, S. and ANDERSON, A. R., 2010. The Role of Networking in the Growth Processes of Family Firms: An International Study. In: Long Term Perspectives on Family Business: Theory, Practice, Policy ; IFERA Lancaster 2010: 10th Annual World Family Business Research Conference. Pp. 92 -

The paper aims to investigate the role of networks in the growth processes of family firms. The study adds to two main stream of literature, drawing together theoretical developments from the family firm realm and networking ...

The research note reports findings of a study into the personal contact networks of Scottish entrepreneurs, and compares these to results already published for other countries (Canada, Greece, Japan, Italy, Northern Ireland, ...

Innovation and ‘creative destruction’ should thrive in the competitive, high risk and high cost environment of the North Sea. Paradoxically, uptake of new technology is slow. The focus of this research was to understand ...

The entrepreneurial context provides a fertile arena for the
study of networks. This qualitative study critically examines the nature,
content and process of strong ties, which are found to fall into three
categories: ...

Smith, Robert(The Robert Gordon University School of Management, 2006-01)

The objective of this thesis, which combines two levels of analysis, is to explore the entrepreneur
as a social construct and the socially constructed nature of entrepreneurship. It builds upon a
limited number of extant ...